A Delhi power department officer informed that the Bawana plant is not getting gas from RIL despite signing an agreement which states that the company will supply over 6.1 mmscmd (million metric standard cubic metres per day) of gas.
Delhi government had constructed the Bawana plant at a cost of Rs 4,500 crore in 2012. Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit along with former power minister Haroon Yusuf had met Union petroleum minister M Veerappa Moily to provide enough gas for the power plant.
From the very beginning RIL has been supplying only about 0.836 mmscmd gas on a daily basis. The plant needs 2.8 mmscmd of the gas to generate 750 MW of electricity. It currently gets 1.56 mmscmd from state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
The national capital gets 2000 MW of electricity from the central pool and it generates about 900 MW on its own power. RIL supplies gas to Bawana at a cost of $5.2 per mmbtu (about Rs 325 today), while the same company RIL is supplies gas to Bangladesh at the rate of $ 2.34 per mmbtu.
Delhi government had constructed the Bawana plant at a cost of Rs 4,500 crore in 2012. Former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit along with former power minister Haroon Yusuf had met Union petroleum minister M Veerappa Moily to provide enough gas for the power plant.
From the very beginning RIL has been supplying only about 0.836 mmscmd gas on a daily basis. The plant needs 2.8 mmscmd of the gas to generate 750 MW of electricity. It currently gets 1.56 mmscmd from state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC).
The national capital gets 2000 MW of electricity from the central pool and it generates about 900 MW on its own power. RIL supplies gas to Bawana at a cost of $5.2 per mmbtu (about Rs 325 today), while the same company RIL is supplies gas to Bangladesh at the rate of $ 2.34 per mmbtu.